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THE GRAND FINISH WAS "SOME GAME" AND
"THE BEST TEAM WON," SAYS BRALEY
But though Silk's eyes are foggy
and blurr at everything, and though
he needs a doggie to lead him, on a
string, his awful miss, I take it
though he was much to blame just
helped a lot to make it
. SOME GAME!
Yet ah, how very blue is the Philly
fan today, for Mr. Duffy Lewis, who
lives up in Boston way, connected
with a swooper and joined the home
run crew, along with Brother Hooper,
whose home runs numbered two.
Thus in the final inning, when runs
were four and four, one of these
swats went spinning and brought in
one run more, and so with mighty
clouting the Boston triumph came,
and we went homeward shouting:
SOME-GAME!
Now comes the calm summation,
in all its larger scope, the recapitu
lation of all the series' dope, we must
be grave and firm in our diagnosis
here, in order to determine the facts
that may appear.
And this is our conclusion, the les
son we have drawn, now that the loud
confusion, the noise and strain are
gone, now that the pall's descended
on hit and bunt and run, now that
the games are ended, we say:
"THE BEST TEAM WON!"
For Philadelphia yielded because
she was outhit, outnumbered and out
fielded, outdone in pep and grit! Her
dreams of conquest flitted, her train
of thought was ditched, because she
was outwitted, outgeneraled, out
pitched ! In fact, to put it gently, now
that the trouble's past, their team was
evidently and thoroughly OUT
CLASSED! These were the things they lost on
and save for these it's plain they're
just as good as Boston, which fact
may ease the pain, reduce the royal
dander and sooth the rooters' wrath
who bet on Alexander and counted
on Cravath.
And then they can think, of tfce.
BY BERTON BRALEY
(Written for the United Press.)
Philadelphia, Oct 14. SOME
GAME! That final battle which closed
the series here! for little babes will
prattle in many a future years of hits
that smashed the fences or soared
beyond the same, while rooters lost
their senses"
SOME GAME!
It was a beair, a whooper, replete
with every thrill, as Speaker, Lewis,
Hooper, lambasted that there pill.
"SOME GAME" is no misnomer, it
set all hearts ahame, when four men
got a homer
SOME GAME!
Why, we shall tell our babies of
Luderus and how he drove us into
rabies with his long homer, WOW!
I've never seen such ardor when ball
and willow met, nobody could hit
harder, that sphere is going yet! No
mortal hand could glom it, it soared
beyond our eyes, and it is now a
comet that flashes in the skies !
Bancroft and Paskert also hit hard
enough, good lack! They slugged
that harmless ball so it seemed fore
doomed to crack in fact, the Phils
were flaying that pill in every frame;
they had us shrieking, praying
SOME GAME!
But if O'Loughlin's vision had not
been at its worst, and caused his
cheese decision which came in frame
the first, two runs which Philly
counted would never have been
scored, jand wouldn't have been
mounted upon the distant board.
It was a fearful blunder which
made us fret and chafe., Paskert was
out, by thunder O'Loughlin called
him safe, and that caused all the
trouble, for had he called him out,
George Poster's wondrous pitching
would have forestalled the clout
which Luderus then hammered and
scored two tallies, two while all the
bleachers yammered, as bleachers
often do, ,
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